Nita Wareechatchai
Designer (she/her)
Nita is a designer who aspires to brings beauty, wonder, and play into the fabric of everyday experiences with thought towards site specificity and temporality, environmental health and maintenance, and the agencies and well-being of a place’s inhabitants. Her responsibilities include supporting principals and associates with design development, 3-D modeling, graphics and renderings, data visualization, construction documents, and general design efforts. Through research and previous experience, she has crafted her skill in design through hands-on making and computational exploration in conjunction with theory and community engagement.
Qualifications
Education
University of Virginia
Master of Landscape Architecture
University of Virginia
Master of Architecture
University of Virginia
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Select Honors and Awards
2023 - Built on Thawing Ice; Speaker/Panelist, Socioecological Design in a Warming Arctic City; Utqiagvik, Alaska; Honor Award in Research, ASLA
2023 - Student Award; Allison Ingram Memorial Award, University of Virginia
2021 - Merit Scholarship, University of Virginia
Fun Facts
In my free time, I can be found // Crafting - sewing, embroidery, book binding, crochet, origami, drawing, painting…
Fueled by // Carbs and hot sauce
Inspired by // Incremental changes over time
Quirks // We talk to ourselves out loud
Never seen without // Music or a book